That's all fine and well in theory, but in reality there are far too many 384 customers that are too far away from their local exchange and would never get anywhere close to 512kbits/s, the only way that Telkodemonopolies can solve this problem is by reducing the copper length by putting fibre inbetween the exchange and roadside distribution boxes, and housing mini-DSLAMs in those roadside d/bs - this is also what's required to implement ADSL2+. Knowing Telkodemonopolies, the beast will not reduce the price of 512 to the price of 384, as 512 brings in more profit than 384.That is when they normally do it, but that sounds very long to wait for the 4mbps trail which I'm sure is basically complete anyway. They might want to make 4mb official sooner and then bump the rest up 1 notch while they do it?
i.e. 384 -> 512
512 -> 1mb
1mb permanently -> 4mb
There's too much of a speed gap at the moment, especially for the price, generally being R75 more for a 4mb line over 512, whicle it's over R100 from 384 to 512.
The problem is that all that will take a long time - especially considering that this is Telkodemonopolies we are talking about, and if we are to believe the emissions from Poison Ivy's other face about imminent LLU, then Telkodemonopolies is going to drag its feet implementing ADSL2+ bcos the LLU recommendations state that the infrastructure between the local exchange and roadside d/bs are the Local Loop - as opposed to between the roadside d/bs and each customer's premises, so Telkodemonopolies isn't going to put in a whole lot of fibre only to have to hand that over to competitors as a result of LLU.
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